GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime, Following Project 2025 Playbook

[struth]

Melania’s porn shots are some of the most widely downloaded on the Interweb

Makes her a star

What porn???

 

[rightwinger]

You have to make porn to be a slut?

Makes a lot of women sluts then

 

[pknopp]

What porn???

Kinda the point isn't it?

 

[SweetTea]

‘Last year, the rightwing think-tank the Heritage Foundation launched Project 2025, which laid out much of the policy blueprint for the current Trump administration. One of the project’s espoused goals was to permanently criminalize all pornography. Now, a Republican senator with kind words for Trump has introduced a bill that would do just that.

Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) recently introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA), which would effectively criminalize all pornography nationwide by legally redefining what it means to be obscene. For years, “obscenity” has been all but a defunct legal category that narrowly defines speech that remains unprotected by the First Amendment. Lee would explode this legal category, expanding it to encompass virtually all visual representations of sex.

According to the bill text, “a picture, image, graphic image file, film, videotape, or other visual depiction” of any media that “appeals to the prurient interest in nudity, sex, or excretion” would be considered criminal. In other words, if you have an old VHS tape of some Cinemax-style smut stashed away in your garage, you could, under this law, be considered to be harboring deeply illicit materials. Some critics have suggested that Lee’s definition of obscenity is so ridiculously broad that it could effectively criminalize Game of Thrones. That said, the punishments for merely possessing porn under the proposed law seem unclear at this point, as the legislation seems more focused on punishing the creators and distributors of racy material.

The law would “pave the way for the prosecution of obscene content disseminated across state lines or from foreign countries and open the door to federal restrictions or bans regarding online porn,” The Daily Caller writes.’

GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime, Following Project 2025 Playbook

Mike Lee wants to deliver a death knell to PornHub.

gizmodo.com

The fascist right continues its authoritarian attack on the First Amendment and freedom of speech and expression – for conservatives it’s about more government, bigger government at the expense of individual liberty, seeking to compel conformity and punish dissent.

This would be a huge cog in the wheel for many Godless Democrats, that’s for sure.

 

[airplanemechanic]

The OP is all worried about how he's going to get his rocks off if this passes.

 

[Moonglow]

MAGA says and does a lot of things that they know is going nowhere just to inflame people.

They are cruel and unusual.

 

[Moonglow]

The Supreme Court has already ruled on the issue, it is a dead-end issue fer the prudes.

 

[Polishprince]

The OP is all worried about how he's going to get his rocks off if this passes.

He shouldn't have a problem. He'll just have to get out of the house, and the fellow at a newstand will sell him the latest copy of Humongous Behinds or Juarez Donkeys in a brown paper bag.

 

[Zincwarrior]

MAGA says and does a lot of things that they know is going nowhere just to inflame people.

I used to think that. Not now.

 

[pknopp]

I used to think that. Not now.

This is going nowhere.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Prurient interest in excretion? Looks like Mormon Mike has outed himself as a scat man.

Was that shit in the book of Morman?

Scat man? That title does belong to another poster on this board.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Getting rid of porn? How is this a bad thing?

First Amendment
States Rights
If you don't like it don't look at it
Nanny state
small government
Remember all those Republican arguments?

 

[Zincwarrior]

This is going nowhere.

Dobbs
Trump blatantly taking a $400MM jet from Qatar
Going to the ME to do a tour for his personal business deals
Texas trying to pass a law making abortion laws and cases not reviewable by courts.
$4Tr in new debt by the "conservative party."

Yea I don't believe that song and dance any more.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The Supreme Court has already ruled on the issue, it is a dead-end issue fer the prudes.

Until the next case.

 

[Mashmont]

First Amendment
States Rights
If you don't like it don't look at it
Nanny state
small government
Remember all those Republican arguments?

Why are drugs illegal? They ruin lives. Same with porn. It destroys families and degrades women by definition. Even looking at porn is a mortal sin in the Catholic Church. That's my guide, and Jesus' perfect word is the correct guide.

 

[Moonglow]

Why are drugs illegal? They ruin lives. Same with porn. It destroys families and degrades women by definition. Looking at porn is a mortal sin in the Catholic Church. That's my guide, and Jesus' word is the correct guide.

Fuck the pagans in the RCC.

 

[Mashmont]

Fuck the pagans in the RCC.

Jesus' word is perfect.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Why are drugs illegal? They ruin lives. Same with porn. It destroys families and degrades women by definition. Even looking at porn is a mortal sin in the Catholic Church. That's my guide, and Jesus' perfect word is the correct guide.

There is not First Amendment for drugs

 

[Mashmont]

Dobbs
Trump blatantly taking a $400MM jet from Qatar
Going to the ME to do a tour for his personal business deals
Texas trying to pass a law making abortion laws and cases not reviewable by courts.
$4Tr in new debt by the "conservative party."

Yea I don't believe that song and dance any more.

Saying the jet is for Trump is like saying the Statue of Liberty was given to Garfield.

 

[Moonglow]

Jesus' word is perfect.

The Papacy is not perfect. They'd learn to be more Christlike and stop sitting upon billions in accumulated wealth.